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The region's newest city is to get a Royal visit next month. The Queen will be come to Chelmsford on Tuesday, May 6.

It will be the first time the Queen has been to Chelmsford since it became a city.

The Queen will be accompanied by Prince Philip for the visit. Credit: PA

Buckingham Palace have yet to confirm details of her trip, but it is expected Her Majesty will visit Chelmsford Cathedral as part of it's centenary celebrations. Prince Philip will also be part of the Royal party.

The Queen and the Duke of Edinburgh are to visit Cambridge later this month. They will arrive on Thursday May 23 and travel by the Cambridgeshire guided bus way to the Medical Research Council Laboratory of Molecular Biology.

A spokesperson said: “The Queen and The Duke of Edinburgh will tour the state-of-the art building visiting laboratories along the route. They will proceed to the main atrium and will unveil a plaque to mark their visit. The Royal party will then take lunch as guests of the laboratory.”

“In the afternoon The Queen and The Duke of Edinburgh will proceed by car to the Rosie Maternity Hospital. Her Majesty will visit the Birthing Centre, meeting staff and new mothers.

The new Queen and the Duke of Edinburgh return to England after the death of her father Credit: PA/PA Wire

King George VI with Princess Elizabeth, Princess Margaret and his granddaughter Princess Anne in 1950 Credit: PA/PA Wire

The Queen will mark the 61st anniversary of her accession to the throne privately at Sandringham on Wednesday. She became monarch on the death of her father King George VI. He died on February 6 1952 at the royal estate in Norfolk after suffering from lung cancer.

The Queen was thousands of miles away at the time in Kenya, watching big game in the Treetops Hotel with the Duke of Edinburgh, unaware of the momentous duty that had fallen upon her shoulders. Philip broke the sad news to his wife and the royal couple returned to Britain.

Most years the Queen does not attend public engagements on the day of her accession and on Wednesday she will reflect on the anniversary of her father's death in private.

This year will see the monarch mark the 60th anniversary of her coronation which was held on June 2, 1953.